prehistory
Meaning
Noun
- History before written records, inclusive of both
- Any past time (even recent) treated as such a distant, unknowable era.
- The history leading up to some event, condition, etc.
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Origin
- From pre- + history, first attested in the Foreign Quarterly Review in 1836, after the model of prehistoric, from French préhistorique.
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